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Originally Posted by Formendacil
Or am I actually learning something new???
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Does that possibility really shock you so much?
I am basing it on the introduction to "The Road goes ever on" where Donald Swann who wrote his settings for Tolkiens' poems with JRRT's full cooperation and approval and who knew him well, said that Tolkien liked to think that the Tolkien name was in origin Danish from Tolkhun. So I mean distant origins ratehr than the nationality of his parents and grandparents.
And by the way you will be pushed to fins someone who is "pure English"
Most of us are true mongrels if you scrape beneath the surface
( Although someone did do a survey of my mother's family as being typical yeoman stock...)
Tolkien while being South African born was of British blood .. and Suffield has an English sound.